Thanks for the help with that marriage record. I think that I'll have to keep digging in Leeds. -----Original Message----- From: Sinebeg Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 7:44 PM To: Leigh Copeland ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [LONDON] Marriage of George Wells to Elizabeth Boyd at St Leonards Shoreditch 30 Sept 1809 Certificate information sent to Leigh Jay On 24/07/16 3:50 PM, Leigh Copeland via wrote: > This could be looking for a needle in a haystack, or the last straw. The > dates are possible, and the names could be right, but the geography could > be difficult. It was the time of the Napoleonic wars though, and George > was in the army. A George Wells, “sergeant in the Leeds staff”, registered > the birth of (hopefully), my2ggm Mary Anne Wells, b 30 July 1810, at > Leeds. There is a good chance that his wife was a Boyd, possibly with > Irish connections. Maybe they married in London. I think that I can get a > copy of the London record from LDS but have difficulty with time and > place. Is this record likely to be available online somewhere? What > information would it be likely to contain. I’m looking for occupation, > birthplace, anything. I need to point out that they are very likely to be > Methodists. The Leeds CofE birth record seems minimal, no mention of > mother. As I understand it they might have had a Methodist wedding but > needed to register it with the CofE. (I’ve never fully understood the > mechanics of this. I have a few other non-conformist relatives that are > difficult to follow.) A George Lazenby went from Leeds to the colony at > Western Australia in 1833, Mary Ann followed 6 years later, and they > married. Unfortunately WA kept only minimal BDM records. > Any help appreciated. > Leigh Copeland > For Information on this list, or to unsubscribe go to > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/ENG/LONDON.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message